How to Tell When Someone is Saying "No" Revisited. Professional Papers [electronic resource] / Joan Rubin.

There is a great deal of knowledge required to send or receive a message of "no." The acquisition of communicative competence, i.e., the ability to interpret the full meaning of a message and the ability to properly formulate such messages, requires three levels of knowledge. These three l...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Rubin, Joan
Corporate Author:	National Center for Bilingual Research (U.S.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1981.
Subjects:	Communicative Competence (Languages) Comprehension. Cultural Awareness. Language Usage. Language Variation. Negative Forms (Language) Second Language Learning. Social Values. Sociocultural Patterns. Sociolinguistics. Speech Communication.